Communications Business Adviser

**Communications Business Adviser**:

- Date: 6 Jan 2025
- Job Location: Gloucester

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
- Job Title: Communications Business Adviser
- Job Location: Shire Hall, 2nd Floor
- Salary: £40,476 - £45,718 per annum
- Hours per Week: 37.00
- Contract Type: Fixed Term
- Duration: Up to 12 Months
- Closing Date: 26/01/2025
- Job Requisition Number: 10654
- This post is open to job share

**Maternity cover (up to 12 months)**

**About The Team & Role**

Come and join an exceptional communications team that supports all areas of this diverse and varied council. You’ll be helping ensure our stakeholders and customers understand our work and can access our services quickly and easily. You’ll also be involved in celebrating success and protecting our reputation.

We’re looking for a talented digital communications professional to support us while our current post holder is on maternity leave. Digital delivery is a priority for the organisation, so this post is critical for ensuring we continue making great progress in our digital communications.

**About You**

To be successful you’ll be highly organised, proactive, customer focussed and excellent at building and maintaining positive collaborative relationships. You’ll understand how to communicate a narrative that is easy to understand and the best ways to get messages out digitally to our varied audiences and be an expert in engaging content creation.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for this role with an average of 2 days a week in the office or on site. This gives our team the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.

**About Us**

For all your hard work, you will receive the following:

- Flexible and agile working opportunities
- 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
- An option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro rata for part-time staff)
- Family friendly employer offering benefits to help support you and your family
- Career development and qualification opportunities
- Supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
- Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
- An in-house Occupational Health service
- Employee discount scheme
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&Cs apply)
- Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network, Women’s Network and the Young Employees Network.

**How to apply**

Closing date 26/01/2025

**Additional Information**

To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:

- Communications Business Adviser - Job Profile

Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.